We wanted to show you our up-to-date Thailand to Laos border crossing experience, as we found there wasn't many recent articles online about this complicated process. For anyone who may do this journey in the near future, this was our notes of how the process played out:

THAILAND TO LAOS
- Woke up 5am in Chiang Rai
- Bus station (any terminal) by 6am, but realised first bus to Chiang Khong was 7:30am (and every hour following - should’ve been 2.5hr) - could've woken up later but didn't know
- Got taxi (in.drive) with 2 others, 250 baht each (1000 total) - 1.5hr drive direct to immigration office
- Pay for bus across friendship bridge, changed up THB for LAK at the desk - 20 baht per person plus 10 baht per bag for bus
- Cross friendship bridge, 5 mins
- Fill out VISA forms & hand in form and passport ASAP
- Wait for passport and VISA to come back to you
- Pay for VISA (680,000 LAK each ($40 USD) each)
- Pay for slow boat to Luang Prabang - 500,000 LAK each (can also get tuk tuk on your own to boat then pay there but not guaranteed seats). Can do it separately but we booked with a man after the VISA desk
- Taxi / tug-tuk takes you to boat
- Get on boat! (11:55 departure, meant to be 11:30)
- Bring game / book / word search to do as no powder sockets or signal for 6 hours
- Stop at Pak Being for the night. Can book cheap hotel there for one night
- Leave for Luang Prabang in morning. Ticket says 9:30am departure but get there early to get a seat!

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Calum & I are on our travels across Southeast Asia! We will try to vlog and upload regularly to show you the life of backpackers on the road, and all the world has to offer us whilst we are away travelling! We hope you can join us for this fun chapter, and any content or videos you wish for us to film please do let us know. Hope you enjoy!!!

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